2 FEBRUARY 1895, Page 2

Lord Lansdowne delivered a striking and masculine speech at Calne

on Tuesday, in which he made one useful sug- gestion, that Bills which have passed their second reading in the House of Commons in one Session should go up to the Lords before the Committee stage in the next Session, so that the Lords would have plenty of time for the discussion of their principles, before the Commons take up the laborious detail of the debate in Committee on their individual pro- visions, and therefore should not have the needless labour of that discussion at all, if the principle had been rejected by the Upper House. That appears to be a very wise and practical suggestion, whatever kind of Upper House we are to have, and there can be no doubt that we shall continue to have one of some kind.